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"Consciousness is not a thing that exists, but an event that occurs."

Joseph Goldstein
"After five minutes, or ten, or fifteen - it doesn’t matter - open your eyes and resume your day. For a moment or two things might seem more alive."

Mark Epstein
"Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise."

Ram Dass
"Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain.”

Tara Brach
"Our job can function as a kind of narcotic, covering the unrest and turbulence of our minds. And a lifestyle that alternates between a lot of work and a lot of fun can keep us constantly busy, without ever having any clue about the true meaning of life or the potential of human consciousness.”

B. Alan Wallace
"Making one’s life into a meditation is different from using meditation to escape from life."

Mark Epstein
“Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it’s OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved."

Mark Williams
"Observing our mind can be more enjoyable than watching a Hollywood movie. The screen, the projector, the story, the characters and the drama are all part of our own experience. Such an amazing theater production could not be bought by millions of dollars. Our ticket to this theater is “seeing beyond": realizing that phenomena do not exist as they appear.”

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
"But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain."

Jack Kornfield
"Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears."

Jack Kornfield
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”

Viktor Frankl
"Real security comes only from feeling at ease with our insecurity. To feel comfortable with the flow of things, at ease when we are insecure, this is the greatest security because nothing can get us out of balance. When we try to solidify, stopping the flow of water, repressing it, keeping things the way they are because it makes us feel safe and secure, we are in trouble. This attitude goes directly against the entire flow of life.”

Tenzin Palmo
"Observe your mind all day long and try to recognize any grudges you're still holding. This applies to anything that gives you even the most subtle feeling of discomfort. Then, practice developing tolerance and patience by focusing on those feelings. Remember that the main thing at stake here is your peace and your cheerful mood.”

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
"From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
“You don't want to block your thoughts, emotions, and so on; nor do you want to chase after them. If you chase after them, if you let them lead you, they begin to define you, and you lose your ability to respond openly and spontaneously in the present moment. On the other hand, if you attempt to block your thoughts, your mind can become quite tight and small.”

Mingyur Rinpoche
"At some point, all superficial travels around the world stop making sense, and there’s a need to go deeper, to some challenging and unexpected place. Movement makes more sense when it’s grounded in stillness. I’m coming to believe that, in an age of speed, nothing could be more refreshing than going slowly. In an age of distraction, nothing could be more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”

Pico Iyer
"What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we’re stuck."

Pema Chödrön
"The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention."

Sharon Salzberg
"Spend 10 seconds of every hour wishing that someone else may be happy. It’s transformative."

Matthieu Ricard
"Do not be afraid to face your difficulties. Turn toward it. Lean into the wind. Hold your ground."

Jack Kornfield
"Generally, if you have some sort of mental chatter, you call it 'thoughts'. But if you’re deeply involved in something emotional, you give it special status. You think these deserve the special privilege of being called ‘emotion’. Regarding the practice of meditation, your thoughts are no longer treated like VIPs while you meditate. You think, you meditate; you think, you meditate. Just let it be. Call them ‘thoughts’.”

Chogyam Trungpa
"Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?"

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"When the situation is good, enjoy it. When the situation is bad, transform it. When the situation can’t be transformed, transform yourself."

Viktor Frankl
"Silence is sometimes the best answer."

Dalai Lama
"Having a simple mind is not the same as being 'basic'. Simplicity of mind is reflected in wakefulness, inner strength, alertness and a healthy contentment that suffers the tribulations of life with a light heart. Simplicity reveals the nature of the mind behind the veil of restless thoughts. It reduces the feeling of exaggerated self-importance and opens our hearts up to genuine altruism.”

Matthieu Ricard
"The point of meditation is not to stop thinking. What needs to be stopped is the compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent conceptualization – this tiresome, often useless and sometimes seriously harmful activity."

B. Alan Wallace
"If you come to me and say – 'I can’t meditate, my mind is going everywhere: here, there, past, present, future' – I should give you a medal. You’re finally meditating. The whole purpose of the instructions is to help you realize that you usually can’t concentrate.”

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
"We do not need to get rid of the ego - this unchanging, solid, and unhealthy sense of self - because it never existed in the first place."

Mingyur Rinpoche
"When the mind grows calmer through meditation, we experience more and more what is happening moment to moment. We begin to see that life is much more interesting than our thoughts about it."

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
"Meditation is a process of formation and transformation. In order for it to have meaning, it must be reflected in every aspect of our way of being, in each one of our actions and attitudes. Otherwise, it will be a waste of time. That means we must persevere with serenity, vigilance and determination, and we’ll discover that, over time, real changes are happening within us.”

Matthieu Ricard
"To be free is to own yourself. It is not doing whatever comes to mind but rather freeing yourself from being subject to the afflictions that dominate and obscure the mind. This means taking the wheels of your life, instead of allowing inner trends created by habit and mental confusion to run it."

Matthieu Ricard
"Whenever someone feels depressed, afraid, or senses that something isn’t right, they often start polishing the table or tidying up the garden, looking for a distraction. Instead of facing the deeper issue, they seek momentary comfort. They’re afraid of empty spaces — of any quiet corner."

Chogyam Trungpa
"Cultivating meditation is no different from having a meal. It would be insane to suggest that someone eat it for you. And when you go to a restaurant, you don’t eat the menu thinking it is the food, nor do you feel satisfied simply by listening to the waiter describing the options. You have to eat in order to feel nourished. Similarly, you need to practice meditation in order to reap the benefits and understand why it is so valuable.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn
“When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.”

Tara Brach
"Most of the time we are trying to get good things to last; or thinking about how to replace them with something even better in the future; or getting stuck in the past thinking about those happy days. Ironically, we never really enjoyed the experience that we feel nostalgic about, because at the time we were too busy clinging to our hopes and fears.”

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
“Why do we meditate? First, it’s helpful to understand that meditation is not just about feeling good. To think that that is why we meditate is to set ourselves up to failure. We will assume that we are doing something wrong almost every time we sit down to practice: even the most determined meditator experiences psychological and physical pain. Meditation accepts us as we are, with our confusion and sanity. It is unconditional kindness, a simple and direct relationship with the way we are.”

Pema Chödrön
"When we look at the world, we find inconceivable suffering. Sometimes we can help others. But most of the time, there is not much we can do. At such times, it is powerful and meaningful to sit quietly and witness... To genuinely be there for others, humbly and silently.”

Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
"Give up defining yourself – for both yourself and others. And do not worry about how others define you. When they define you, they are limited, so that’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as a field of conscious presence. You can only lose something you have – you can’t lose something you are.”

Eckhart Tolle
"Love is the ability to care, protect, nourish. If you are not able to generate that kind of energy for yourself, it’s very difficult to take care of someone else. Loving yourself is the foundation of loving others. Love is a practice.”

Thich Nhat Hanh
"It is not because things are difficult that we don’t dare. It's because we don’t dare that they are difficult."

Seneca
"The main purpose of meditation is to transform oneself, in order to better transform the world, and become a better human being, in order to better serve others. Meditation allows us to give life its noblest sense."

Matthieu Ricard
“There's no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it.”

Mingyur Rinpoche
"Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose."

Eckhart Tolle
"The world is full of pain, uncertainty, and injustice. But in this vulnerable human life, every loss is an opportunity either to shut out the world or to stand up with dignity and let the heart respond."

Jack Kornfield
"Freedom means being able to choose how to react to things. When wisdom is not well developed, it may be obscured by the provocations of others. We can become like animals. If there is no space between the offending stimulus and its immediate conditioned response (anger) then we are actually under the control of others. When there is wisdom to fill it in, the person is able to respond with patience. it's not that anger is suppressed; it does not even arise.”

Andrew Olendzki
"Neuroplasticity informs us that the mind and brain are highly changeable, and that the brain is constantly being shaped by experience. Well-being is a skill and can be improved through training."

Richard J. Davidson, PhD
“Mindfulness cultivates our ability to do things knowing that we're doing them.”

Mark Williams
“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

Viktor Frankl
"You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent, and you think that they are permanent."

Thich Nhat Hanh
"Remember all of the times when you felt the happiest. I bet that the common denominator is the ability to forget yourself. This is the paradox of happiness. If you really want true joy, you need to let go of the sense of self. And there is nothing more powerful than the experience of compassion to make this possible. So I think that's why compassion is the key to happiness.”

Thupten Jinpa
"Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?"

Shantideva
"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

Viktor Frankl
"Our external freedom depends on the degree of inner freedom that we have developed in a given moment. And if this is the correct view of freedom, our main energies must be focused on enacting some inner reform.”

Mahatma Gandhi
“When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.”

Mingyur Rinpoche
"There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can."

Dan Harris
"Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows."

Jack Kornfield
"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another."

Ram Dass
"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth."

Pema Chödrön
"If you are meditating and an image or an unpleasant desire appears, no problem. No harm is done by the presence of negative thoughts, as long as you do not fixate on them. The problem is a sticky awareness that closes itself around negative thoughts like: ‘How can I think such a thing? But I like to think... Yet I shouldn’t…’ The problem is identification and fixation, not the thoughts themselves.”

B. Alan Wallace
“Our way of acting depends on our way of thinking and our way of thinking depends on our energy. Once we recognize this, we just have to say, “Hello, habitual energy” and make friends with our patterns and habits of thought and action. When we can accept these ingrained thoughts and not feel guilty about them, they lose much of their power over us.”

Thich Nhat Hanh
"Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is."

Eckhart Tolle
"It’s important that we don’t identify so strongly with our personality. It's just a mask. We don’t have to hold on to this mask. It can be altered."

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
"The answer lies within us. If we can’t find peace and happiness within, they will not come from outside.”

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
"Meditation is not a sedative, it’s a laxative."

Chogyam Trungpa
"The past has gone, the future has not come, so the most important moment of your life is always right here, right now."

Chamtrul Rinpoche
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life."

Eckhart Tolle
"A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done."

Ram Dass
"Happiness ultimately arises from the choice between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them."

Mingyur Rinpoche
"Life only unfolds in moments. The healing power of mindfulness lies in living each of those moments as fully as we can, accepting it as it is as we open to what comes next - in the next moment of now."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Many people cling to the past or the future, neglecting the important present. We must live our best “now” with full responsibility. When the sun is shining, enjoy it. When the rain falls, enjoy it. All things in this life – let them come and go. This is the secret that keeps us from getting bored or neurotic.”

Gyomay Kubose
"The reason we do not open our hearts to others is that they cause confusion in us. To the extent that we regard ourselves with clarity and compassion, we feel confident to look in another person’s eyes.”

Pema Chödrön
"There is the thought, and then there is the awareness of thought. The difference between being conscious of a thought and merely thinking is huge. Usually, we are so identified with our thoughts and emotions, that we feel like we are them. We are happiness, we are anger, we are fear. We must learn to take a step back and know that our thoughts and emotions are just thoughts and emotions. They are just mental states. There are not solid, but transparent.”

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
"When we cultivate self-compassion, we do not evaluate ourselves according to our achievements or compare ourselves to others. We learn to recognize our faults and limitations with patience, understanding and kindness. We come to see our problems in the larger context of our shared humanity. Thus, self-compassion, unlike self-esteem, makes us more connected with each other and more accessible to them. Through acceptance, it promotes a more realistic understanding.”

Thupten Jinpa
"Meditation frees up space in our mind, gives room to experience. Usually, our lives are so cluttered that we have no space to breathe. But meditation gives us room to breathe, so that things can arise and, therefore, understanding and experience may appear. Especially nowadays, what we don’t have in our everyday lives is space and silence. Meditation is about returning to our inner silent space.”

Tenzin Palmo
"Our mind becomes more spacious, more open, and happier as we move past our avoidance and denial to see what is true."

Joseph Goldstein
"The ego is never satisfied. No matter how much stuff we buy, no matter how many arguments we win or delicious meals we consume, the ego never feels complete."

Dan Harris
"So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Where would I find enough leather To cover the entire surface of the earth? But with leather soles beneath my feet, It’s as if the whole world has been covered."

Shantideva
“We might begin by scanning our body... and then asking, 'What is happening?' We might also ask, 'What wants my attention right now?' or, 'What is asking for acceptance?'”

Tara Brach
"It's unbelievable what we do in our relationships. We give the other person the impossible task of making us happy. We are not taking responsibility for dealing with our own mind. We hope someone fills us with happiness and well-being."

Lama Tsering
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Dalai Lama
"Generally, it’s during our efforts to help others in their confusion that we experience some relief from our own confusion. This potential for mutual benefit is always present. For this reason, we should not share in the view that we are intelligent and that the poor confused person in front of us doesn’t know better. At the same time, we should not expect any results or rewards. In short, genuine compassion is something free from maneuvers of any kind.”

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
"The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available."

Mingyur Rinpoche
"The more relaxed you are, the better you will be in all things. The better you will be with those you love, the better you will be with your enemies, the better you will be at work, the better you will be with yourself."

Bill Murray
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”

Tara Brach
"The key is to make meditation a part of our lives, just like weaving a thread in the fabric of a tapestry. Bringing a joyful attitude to our practice helps immensely. When the healing of the mind becomes a habit, our minds become like a great river. Although the river does not always appear to be moving, if we look closely, we will see how the water is slowly going towards the sea.”

Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
“In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become.”

Mark Williams
"The only difference between meditation and deepening a friendship is that, in the first case, the friend you’re slowly getting to know is yourself."

Mingyur Rinpoche
"Be like a great bird, that can fly through a storm to the peaceful expanse of sky. Fly through the storm of your afflictive emotions to the peaceful expanse of your mind."

Chamtrul Rinpoche
"The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another."

Jack Kornfield
"When you are troubled by someone’s negative behavior towards you, treat that person with compassion. Being dominated by thoughts of anger and hatred only poisons the mind. Protect your mind from evil like you would protect a child from getting hurt."

B. Alan Wallace
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”

Viktor Frankl
"We can look directly at disturbing emotions, and other problems we face in our lives, as springboards to freedom. Instead of rejecting them or surrendering to them, we can make friends and work with them in order to reach an authentic and lasting experience of our own inherent wisdom, confidence, clarity and joy.”

Mingyur Rinpoche
"Anger and jealousy are related to our self-centeredness and our disregard for others. Self-centeredness easily brings forth fear, which favors annoyance, which may lead to violence when it explodes in anger. It's time to accept that if we are talking about world peace, we must consider peace within ourselves."

Dalai Lama
"Let your own experience serve as your guide and inspiration. Let yourself enjoy the view as you travel along the path. The view is your own mind, and because your mind is already enlightened, if you take the opportunity to rest awhile along the journey, eventually you’ll realize that the place you want to reach is the place you already are."

Mingyur Rinpoche
“Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just 'real life'.”

Tara Brach
"What provokes us is not as important as how we react."

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
"Like everyone else, I also have anger within me. But I try to remember that anger is a destructive emotion, that scientists say that anger is bad for our health; it destroys our immune system. So anger destroys our peace of mind and our physical health. We should not welcome it, nor think of it as being something natural or friendly.”

Dalai Lama
"By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another."

Ram Dass
"True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings."

Pema Chödrön
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

Ram Dass
"The reason for not devoting more time to balancing our minds is that we are betting our lives on the premise that we will find the happiness we seek by pursuing transient pleasures."

B. Alan Wallace
“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”

Eckhart Tolle
"The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Breathing gently, people enjoy such rest. But between one breath and the next, there is no guarantee that death won’t intrude. Waking up healthy is an event that really deserves be considered miraculous, yet we still take it for granted.”

Patrul Rinpoche
"The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves."

Pema Chödrön
"True happiness comes from the heart. It comes from a mind that has become more stable, clearer, more present in the moment, an open mind that cares about the happiness of other beings. A mind that has security, who knows it can handle whatever happens. A mind that does not cling as hard to things; a mind that holds things lightly. Such is a happy mind.”

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
"An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course. One and a half minutes, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does, it's because we've chosen to rekindle it."

Pema Chödrön
"Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations."

Mark Epstein
"Every moment is a new year, every breath a new life, every heartbeat a step into a new world."

Roshi Amy Hollowell⁣⁣
"We must be aware that what causes discomfort and anxiety are not the events themselves, but how we connect our emotions to these events."

Jonathan García-Allen
"Impermanence means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually see each and every little movement of mind - changing, changing, changing."

Pema Chödrön
"Stillness does not mean the elimination of disturbances as much as a different way of viewing them."

Mark Epstein
"In the end, happiness is limited to choosing between the hassle of becoming aware of mental afflictions and the discomfort of being guided by them."

Mingyur Rinpoche
"When you chase thoughts, you behave like a dog chasing a stick – every time it is thrown, you run after it. But if, instead, you turn your attention to the origin of these thoughts, to where they come from, you will see that each of them appears and dissolves in the space of consciousness, without giving rise to other thoughts. Be like a lion: instead of chasing the stick, turn towards who threw it. With the lion, one only throws the stick once.”

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama
"It is our mind, and only our mind, who locks us up or liberates us."

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
"Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be."

Eckhart Tolle
"Practitioners of meditation are sometimes criticized for being too self-centered, for being satisfied with a certain self-centered introspection instead of helping others. But you call selfish an action that seeks to eradicate self-obsession and to cultivate altruism. It would be like criticizing a future doctor for spending years in medical school.”

Matthieu Ricard
"We are hardly ever aware of what we are doing. If we drink coffee, we are not thinking about coffee. We are thinking about what to do next, or what we did yesterday, or get caught up in our fantasies. In other words, we’re basically almost never truly living. We’re always only thinking of living.”

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
"There is nothing more important than getting to know your own mind."

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
"Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind."

Joseph Goldstein
"We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart."

Pema Chödrön
"Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy. Sometimes we don't feel that way because of the wounds and the scars we carry from the past or because of the uncertainty of the future. It is doubtful that we came to feel undeserving on our own. We were helped to feel unworthy. We were taught it in a thousand ways when we were little, and we learned our lessons well."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.”

Tara Brach
"From the moment of our birth, we all wanted to live a happy life. However, many share in the view that our existing education systems are inadequate when it comes to preparing people to be more compassionate (one of the necessary conditions for happiness). As a human brother, I am committed to let people know that we all possess the seeds of love and compassion. Having a smart brain is not enough – we also need a welcoming heart.”

Dalai Lama
"Be here now."

Ram Dass
"Compassion is a key part of the essential nature of the human being. The key to individual happiness and the well-being of society as a whole is to get in touch with our compassionate side and, from there, deal with ourselves, others and the world.”

Thupten Jinpa
"The source of all difficulties and conflicts lies in the mind, so the solution for all difficulties and conflicts is transforming the mind. That’s why we practice meditation..."

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
"The greatest respect that we can show someone is to not believe that we know who they are."

Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
"When intense anger or desire arise, do not reject or suppress them, but also do not follow them. Just look at the emotion itself, eye to eye, and try to relax within the emotion. There’s no confrontation involved. By remaining unattached, you are neither carried away by the emotion nor your reject it."

Ringu Tulku
"Nothing disappears until it has taught us what we need to learn."

Pema Chödrön
"The traumatized individual lives outside time, in his or her own separate reality, unable to relate to the consensual reality of others. The remembering quality of mindfulness counters this tendency."

Mark Epstein
"Compassion brings peace of mind. This puts a smile on our faces – and genuine smiles bring us closer. Nowadays, education needs to not only develop our intelligence, but also support basic human values like, for instance, a loving and compassionate heart. These are not exclusive qualities of religious people, because as human beings, we all want peace of mind."

Dalai Lama
"The strange thing about worry is that it really doesn’t help. It just aggravates the situation. It's hard to be present and confident, since we are living in the future or in the past, which only generates more fear and worry.”

Sakyong Mipham
"People often complain that practice is difficult, involves a lot of effort, and may think that this is not for them... But what’s difficult is not the practice in itself, it’s people's habits. Take, for instance, smokers. They claim that quitting smoking is very difficult. But for people who don’t smoke, it’s not difficult at all. It’s important to keep in mind that the difficulty is not in the practice itself, but in the habits that we developed and that prevent us from practicing.”

Jigme Khye
"Our minds are all we have. All we've ever had. And they are all that we can offer to others... Each of the experiences that you’ve had has been shaped by your mind. Each relationship is as good, or as bad, as it is because of the minds that are in it.” "If you are constantly nervous, depressed, confused and unloving, or if your attention is always somewhere else, no matter how successful you become or who are in your life, you will not enjoy anything."

Sam Harris
"Instead of fighting the force of confusion, we can meet it and relax. When we do this, we gradually discover that clarity is always there. In the middle of the worst-case scenario happening to the worst person in the world, in the midst of all the heavy dialogue we have with ourselves, that open space is always there.”

Pema Chödrön
"Always say 'yes' to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you."

Eckhart Tolle
"Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well."

Jack Kornfield
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."

Dalai Lama
"Why do you need to meditate? Because if you do not practice, I can assure you that your mind will play games with you, become happy then sad, thrilled then miserable, moody and depressed, then excited and out of control, just following whatever you feel. Meditation helps you find balance in your life. Please understand that balance comes from within, from your relationship with your own mind. It has nothing to do with what happens outside.”

Phakchok Rinpoche
"My advice is simple: don’t pay that much attention to your feelings. For example, you often don’t really want to sit down and meditate... Just sit! Work through the feelings that are saying 'I want this' or 'I don’t want that'. Work through the entire blockage. That way you become more yourself. You become worthy, because YOU took control of your life, not your feelings.”

Phakchok Rinpoche
"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them, we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances, they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience."

Dalai Lama
"Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently."

Mark Epstein
"When you feel angry, just observe the anger. Not the cause of anger or its outcome, simply the pure emotion. By facing your anger, you will discover that there is nothing you can point to and say: ‘Here is my anger.’ And the realization that there is absolutely nothing there is what is called ‘the dawn of wisdom.’”

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

Dalai Lama
"Nothing that we see or hear is perfect. But it’s precisely within the imperfection that the perfect reality lies. Enjoy your problems.”

Suzuki Roshi
"I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!"

Ram Dass
"If you’re never looking up, I now realized, you’re always just looking around."

Dan Harris
"Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"It's a relief when we realize that it is not the outside world that has to change so that we can be at peace, but rather our own minds."

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
“Don't aim at success---the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.”

Viktor Frankl
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation."

Viktor Frankl
"Sometimes it might be important to think about the past or the future, but try not to let it take up too much of your time, otherwise you will miss the opportunity of what your mind can be doing right now."

Chamtrul Rinpoche
"Young people yearn for the future. Old people cling to the past. Wise people remain in the present."

Chamtrul Rinpoche
“When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.”

Mingyur Rinpoche
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.”

Tara Brach
"I laugh at myself for creating emotions that make me feel upset. Please, don’t always believe what you feel."

Phakchok Rinpoche
"Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are."

Jack Kornfield
"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."

Eckhart Tolle
"You should try to look at everything that happens in your mind only as a secretion. Our thoughts and feelings are a type of secretion. I've always had things popping up in my head, but if I tried to act out everything that occurred to me, it would just be exhausting. Have you had the experience of being at a high place and feeling the urge to jump? That urge is only a secretion in your head. But if you believe you have to follow every impulse that arises in your mind, well...”

Kosho Uchiyama
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Viktor Frankl
"As long as our minds oscillate compulsively between agitation and laziness, between one attentional imbalance and another, we’ll never discover the true extent of human consciousness."

B. Allan Wallace
"We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it."

Sharon Salzberg
"A mind that looking in other people and other places for something that’s missing in itself is a mind that ignores its own resources for peace and happiness."

B. Alan Wallace
"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it."

Eckhart Tolle
"Anger tends to arise spontaneously, but we can develop compassion through training. Anger can bring energy, but the problem is that it is blind energy. We take care of our physical hygiene to maintain our health, it, too, is emotional hygiene.”

Dalai Lama
"You know, addiction is like holding on really tight. But genuine love is like holding very kindly, nourishing but letting things flow. It is not getting tightly stuck. But it’s very difficult for people to understand this, because they think that the more they cling to someone, the more it shows that they care about each other.” "Any kind of relationship in which we imagine that we can be fulfilled by another person will certainly be very complicated."

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
"We try very hard to improve the external conditions of our existence, but it is our mind that experiences the world and expresses this experience in the form of well-being or suffering. If we change the way we perceive things, we transform the quality of our life. This change is the result of a mind-training that is called 'meditation'.”

Matthieu Ricard
"You may notice something ironic: sitting quietly alone, you may feel less isolated from the world than when you are busy involved in the bustle of everyday life."

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
"A healthy mind is the true key to happiness. We spend so much energy with physical health and hygiene, but we also need to spend more time doing our mental and emotional hygiene."

Dalai Lama
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”

Viktor Frankl
"When you pour water on a sandy surface, we all know what happens: the water disappears. In the practice of shamatha focused on the breath, let all mental activities dissolve in the sand of your body. In the 21st century, we need grounding... We need to relax - more so than any civilization in human history.”

B. Alan Wallace
“Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.”

Tara Brach
"Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively."

Sharon Salzberg
“The mind is constantly trawling through memories to find those that echo our current emotional state. For example, if you feel threatened, the mind instantly digs up memories of when you felt endangered in the past, so that you can spot similarities and find a way of escaping.”

Mark Williams
"Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at the bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
“We can’t understand the nature of reality until we let go of controlling our experience.”

Tara Brach
"Start where you are. This is very important. The practice of meditation is not about later, when everything is settled, and you’ve become a person you can respect. You can be the most violent person in the world. This is a very rich place to start – it has substance and smell. You may be the most depressed person, the most addicted or jealous. (...). All of those are good places to start. Just where you are, this is the place to start."

Pema Chödrön
"When we choose breathing as our focus for the practice of meditation, thoughts, images, memories, impulses, all these mental events keep popping up. Before getting carried away by them, we can just release them without any effort. The image I like to use is that of a child releasing balloons in the air. No need to push them, no need to cut the string. Just let them go, happily!”

B. Alan Wallace
"When we're talking about practice, as soon as something goes against your ego’s desire, it becomes a practice. For that, meditation is very important, because meditation – especially shamatha – isolates the ego from its own distractions. Isolation is the last thing the ego wants, because the ego is fundamentally unhappy about its own condition. The very nature of ego is insecurity: insecurity about its own identity and existence.”

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
"Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it."

Sharon Salzberg
"Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Self-compassion involves being kind to ourselves when life goes wrong or when we notice something about us that we do not like, instead of being cold or severely self-critical. It recognizes that the human condition is imperfect, so when we fail or suffer we feel connected to others, instead of feeling separate or isolated.”

Kristin Neff
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."

Dalai Lama
"Life flickers under the assaults of a thousand diseases, More fragile than a bubble in a stream. During sleep, each breath goes and comes again; How wonderful to wake up still alive!”

Nagarjuna
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few."

Shunryu Suzuki
"The more we cultivate love and kindness, the less room we will have for anger and hatred in our mental landscape."

Dalai Lama
“Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.”

Viktor Frankl
"Our lives are not too long. It's like a picnic on a Sunday afternoon. Just looking at the sun, seeing things grow and breathing fresh air is already a joy. But if all we do is argue about where to put the towel, who sits in which corner... what a waste! Sooner or later the weather changes, evening falls and the picnic is over. And all we did was argue and pick on each other.”

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
“If you simply accept life as it is, you will be a lot more fulfilled and increasingly worry-free.”

Mark Williams
"We will always have problems to face, but if our mind is calm, this will make all the difference. On the surface, we may get upset, but everything changes if we can remain calm in the depths of our mind."

Dalai Lama
"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."

Sharon Salzberg
"If you start from the mistaken assumption that your life will be perfect, you will always be shocked by the ups and downs. But if you expect that your life will really always have ups and downs, your mind will be at peace."

Lama Yeshe
"When we think of resting, we usually turn on the TV or go out to have a drink. But this doesn’t provide us with real rest. That's just consuming more information. In order for true relaxation to occur, we need to give ourselves some inner space. And the way to do this is to keep the mind in the time. That is meditation. A relaxed and alert mind. Try five minutes of this and you will feel refreshed and awake.”

Tenzin Palmo
"Be kind to yourself as you continue this journey. This kindness, in and of itself, is a way to awaken the spark of love within you and help others discover that spark within themselves."

Tsoknyi Rinpoche
"Mind-training allows us not only to fight mental toxins that literally poison our existence, such as hatred and obsession, but also to gain a better understanding of how the mind works and a more just perception of reality. It’s this perception that allows us to face the ups and downs of life, not only without turning away or ripping ourselves apart, but knowing how to extract deep lessons from them.”

Matthieu Ricard
"Meditation is cultivating mental state. It’s a workout. Nobody expects to play the piano without practicing. Why wait for compassion, altruism, inner freedom and concentration to occur magically?”

Matthieu Ricard
"Breathe and let it be."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
“When you start to feel a little sad, anxious, or irritable it’s not the mood that does the damage but how you react to it. The effort of trying to free yourself from a bad mood or bout of unhappiness – of working out why you’re unhappy and what you can do about it – often makes things worse. It’s like being trapped in quicksand – the more you struggle to be free, the deeper you sink.”

Mark Williams
"If you stay in the moment, you’ll have what is called spontaneous right action, which is intuitive, which is creative, which is visionary, which eavesdrops on the mind of the universe."

Dan Harris
“Mindfulness is not positive thinking. It is the open awareness and acceptance of all present experience, pleasant or not, without attachment or resistance.”

Karmapa
"We are all like actors in a play that take ourselves to be our characters; therefore, we see each other as friends or enemies. Once we understand this, it is irrelevant whether people are known or unknown, ugly or beautiful, kind or not. Instead of classifying people, we can learn to overcome the limits of our compassion and treat all beings with the same kindness, patience and compassion instead of anger or attachment.”

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."

Sharon Salzberg
"Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation."

Pema Chödrön
“If our sense of who we are is defined by feelings of neediness and insecurity, we forget that we are also curious, humorous and caring. We forget about the breath that is nourishing us, the love that unites us, the enormous beauty and fragility that is our shared experience in being alive.”

Tara Brach
"Serving others doesn’t have to be grand. To offer a welcoming gesture to someone we did not even know, perhaps on the bus, can make a tremendous difference to that person. Such a gesture can get people out of a deep place of isolation."

Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
"One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them."

Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Trying to change the world without changing our mind is like trying to clean the dirty face we see in the mirror by rubbing the glass."

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
"Every morning, when you wake up, think: I'm alive, I have a precious human life, I will not spoil it. I will use all my energies to develop myself, To expand my heart for others, To achieve awakening for the benefit of all beings. I will not get angry or think badly of other people. I will benefit others as much as I can.”

Dalai Lama
"A great Japanese master used to say: simply sit. When a person sits, the whole set of references and worldviews begins to settle down. Suddenly, they begin to see things differently. It changes their perspective. Our minds work by excitement. If you don’t add new elements, it will naturally calm down. If we sit quietly, we gradually gain an inner freedom from these assumptions. We are able to look more freely at our realities.”

Lama Padma Samten
"Nowadays, in our modern society, contentment is either completely ignored or ridiculed, because if we were content, we wouldn’t consume."

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
"We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them."

Ram Dass
"If you want to understand your mind, sit down and observe it."

Joseph Goldstein
"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek."

Dalai Lama
"Compassion is not weakness. It’s the strength that comes from seeing the true nature of suffering in the world. Compassion allows us to witness this suffering, either in ourselves or in others, without fear. It allows us to call out injustices without hesitation, and act fiercely with all the skills at our disposal. To develop this compassionate state of mind of compassion is to learn how to live with empathy for all living beings, without exception.”

Sharon Salzberg
"Know that if you’re not content with things, you’ll become a slave of desire!''

Padampa Sangye
"Mindfulness, the Root of Happiness."

Joseph Goldstein
"Always maintain only a joyful attitude. If this can be done even when distracted, you are proficient."

Chekawa Yeshe Dorje
"Don’t seek others’ misery as crutches of your own happiness."

Chekawa Yeshe Dorje
"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure."

Henri Nouwen
"To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship."

Henri Nouwen
"A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive."

Henri Nouwen
"Human beings because of the size of the neocortex, we can turn on the stress response just by thought alone as we think about our problems and turn on those chemicals. That means then our thoughts could make us sick. So if it is possible that our thoughts could make us sick, is it possible that our thoughts could make us well? The answer is an absolute yes."

Dr. Joe Dispenza
"'How much longer will I live?' (...) Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention."

Henri Nouwen
"Most people then wait for crisis or trauma, or disease or diagnosis, you know, they wait for loss, some tragedy to make up their mind to change and my message is: why wait? You can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering or you can learn and change in a state of joy and inspiration."

Dr. Joe Dispenza
"Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger."

Henri Nouwen
"Don't ask yourself why you can't concentrate, instead ask yourself how often you practice distraction in your day. One of the reasons why you can't concentrate is that you have been practicing distraction and you are now very good at it."

Dandapani
"Your preparation for meditation is as important as your meditation practice, if not more so. The better you prepare, the better your meditation will be."

Dandapani
"Concentration is focusing on one thing at a time. Concentration leads to meditation. Meditation is experiencing that one thing you are focusing on."

Dandapani
"Think of your meditation practice as a way for you to take a placebo every day. But instead of taking a pill to change your state of being, you'll be going inward to do it. In time, your meditation will become like your belief in taking medication."

Dr. Joe Dispenza
"Thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body. And how we think and how we feel creates our state of being."

Dr. Joe Dispenza
"The present moment is the only time we have."

Thich Nhat Hanh
“When we let our battles and the ties that bound us go, we are able to rest our mind and open our heart."

Jack Kornfield
"Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together."

Brené Brown
"We are not. We are being. You are not a rock. Accept to be river."

Alejandro Jodorowsky
"Let go who you think you should be; Embrace who you are."

Brené Brown
"When meditating, leave the front and back door opened. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea."

Shunryu Suzuki
"Learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life."

Sogyal Rinpoche
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”

John Green
"To truly live is to ground our intuitions and establish circuits of mutual interaction between our outer and inner worlds."

Rick Jarow
“Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.”

Lao Tzu
“Don’t forget to make space in your life to recognize the richness of your basic nature, to see the purity of your being and let its innate qualities of love, compassion, and wisdom naturally emerge. Nurture this recognition as you would a small seedling. Allow it to grow and flourish.”

Mingyur Rinpoche
“Don’t worry. Your mind isn’t getting worse. Actually, what’s happening is that you’re simply becoming more aware of activity that has been going on all the time without your noticing it.”

Mingyur Rinpoche
“As the habitual tendencies and distractions that normally cloud the mind begin to settle through meditation, you’ll begin to see the activity that has been going on all the time just below the level of ordinary awareness.”

Mingyur Rinpoche
“Your healing lifts up the ocean of existence. When you heal we all heal.”

Yung Pueblo
“Do the earth a favour, don’t hide your magic.”

Yung Pueblo
“People who deeply know and love themselves are not hateful towards others.”

Yung Pueblo
“A real sign of progress is when we no longer punish ourselves for our imperfections.”

Yung Pueblo
“All can be healed.”

Yung Pueblo
“To harm another is to harm oneself.”

Yung Pueblo
“I am not fully healed, I am not fully wise, I am still on my way. What matters is that I am moving forward.”

Yung Pueblo
“Letting go doesn’t mean forgetting, it just means we stop carrying the energy of the past into the present.”

Yung Pueblo
“You can love people and not allow them to harm you.”

Yung Pueblo
“Forcing ourselves to be happy is not genuine or productive; being honest about what we feel while remaining calm and aware is the real work."

Yung Pueblo
“We carry our attachments and pain in our bodies, as we let them go our bodies change.”

Yung Pueblo
“How do you know you are growing in the right direction? You can breath more deeply, think more clearly, and feel calmness and happiness flow more strongly through your being.”

Yung Pueblo
"When you grow rapidly and experience such deep insights that you can no longer look at yourself or the world in the same way. Be kind, allow yourself the time and space to settle into the new you.”

Yung Pueblo
“While in the midst of serious internal growth, respect your need to rest."

Yung Pueblo
“Three things make life harder: not loving ourselves, refusing to grow, not letting go.”

Yung Pueblo
“'Reclaiming our power', 'healing ourselves', 'loving ourselves', 'knowing ourselves' – these phrases are becoming more and more common, why? Because they are the pathways to our own freedom and happiness.”

Yung Pueblo
“The healer you have been looking for is your own courage to know and love yourself completely.”

Yung Pueblo
“Loving yourself is not selfish, it is essential to your wellbeing and the wellbeing of the world.”

Yung Pueblo
“A sign of growth is being okay with not being okay.”

Yung Pueblo
"Your emotional history affects your daily behaviour; letting go of these patterns allows you to think and act in new ways.”

Yung Pueblo
“True power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero, and leader.”

Yung Pueblo
“Self-love is the nourishment that gives us the clarity and strength to love others well.”

Yung Pueblo
“I cannot make you happy, but I can commit to support you in the creation of your own happiness.”

Yung Pueblo
“I do not wish to change the past, it made me who I am today. I only want to learn from it and live in a new way.”

Yung Pueblo
“Don't run away from heavy emotions honor the anger; give pain the space it needs to breathe this is how we let go.”

Yung Pueblo
“Taking a moment to figure out how you really feel, instead of letting old patterns decide for you is one of the most authentic things you can do.”

Yung Pueblo
“Sometimes growth hurts, but it is the type of pain that is easier to endure because it is helping us come forward as a better version of ourselves.”

Yung Pueblo
“Letting go is medicine that heals the heart. Letting go is a habit that requires practice. Letting go is best done through feeling, not thinking.”

Yung Pueblo
"One of the clearest signs of personal growth is a deepening of self-love, self-awareness, and love for others."

Yung Pueblo
“Do not forget to send your love; Into the earth; Into the water; Into the sky.”

Yung Pueblo
“Ask yourself: 'Is this worry real or is my mind just looking for something to grab onto?'”

Yung Pueblo
“Sometimes deeper mental clarity is preceded by great internal storms.”

Yung Pueblo
“Happiness is not fulfilling every pleasure or getting every outcome you desire. Happiness is being able to enjoy life with a peaceful mind that is not constantly craving more. It is the inner peace that comes with embracing change.”

Yung Pueblo
“Your initial reaction is usually your past trying to impose itself on your present.”

Yung Pueblo
“Two of the great lessons humanity will learn in the 21st century will be: To harm another is to harm oneself when you heal yourself, you heal the world.”

Yung Pueblo
“Self-love is doing the work we need to do to be free.”

Yung Pueblo
"How many times has your mind taken a small piece of uncertain information and spun a story that ends up consuming your thoughts?"

Yung Pueblo
"Ask yourself often: 'Am I observing the situation accurately or am I projecting how I feel onto what is happening?'"

Yung Pueblo
"It is normal to feel down, tired, and emotionally exhausted when you are going through a big transition. Especially when you have to let go of something better. Great changes are not meant to be easy, they arise to inspire your growth."

Yung Pueblo
"All mental tension comes from not letting go."

Yung Pueblo
"Observe. Accept. Release. Transform."

Yung Pueblo
"Base your relationship on clear communication and voluntary commitments, not expectations."

Yung Pueblo
"Give support, but don't try to fix everything. Embrace growth, but don't expect. Perfection has boundaries, but change them as needed. Have determination, but rest and relax as well. Allow connection, but build with mature people. Be positive, but let yourself feel hard moments."

Yung Pueblo
"Have you noticed that when you feel the urge to change someone, what you really want is for them to behave more like you?"

Yung Pueblo
"Real love is not full of tension, attachments are."

Yung Pueblo
"Where do good decisions come from? A calm mind."

Yung Pueblo
"Conflict gets worse when both people fall into defensive reactions, then there is no real communication happening, only trauma arguing with trauma."

Yung Pueblo
"Two things make life particularly difficult: trying to control everything and expecting perfection from others."

Yung Pueblo
"When people are down, they don't want to hear 'Cheer up!' Pushing them to be positive invalidates their emotions. They don't want to be told how to feel. They want to know you care about how they feel. The goal isn't always to feel better. Sometimes it's just to be understood."

Adam Grant
"Next time you feel agitated because you are falling back into past patterns, remember that simply being aware that you have fallen back into repeating the past is a sign of progress. Self-awareness comes before the great leap forward in your personal transformation."

Yung Pueblo
"It is easier to let go of someone's opinion of you. When you understand that others see you through a combination of their past conditioning and their current emotional state, without realizing it, they see themselves first, and through that lens, they get an unclear picture of you."

Yung Pueblo
"Listen to advice you give to others. It's often the advice you need to take yourself."

Adam Grant
"The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed."

Adam Grant
“The essence of meditation practice is to let go of all your expectations about meditation. All the qualities of your natural mind— peace, openness, relaxation, and clarity — are present in your mind just as it is. You don’t have to do anything different. You don’t have to shift or change your awareness. All you have to do while observing your mind is recognize the qualities it already has.”

Mingyur Rinpoche
"When you punish failure, people are quick to deny it. They strive to convince others - and themselves - that they haven't failed. When you normalize failure as part of growth, people are quick to recognize it. They strive to learn from it and rectify it."

Adam Grant
"You don't need to know the whole path. Just the next step."

Dr. Rick Hanson
"The past has no power over the present moment."

Eckhart Tolle
"There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it."

Amanda Gorman
"Progress isn't always about getting better. Sometimes it's about bouncing back. Success is not only the peaks you reach—it's the valleys you conquer. Every experience of enduring adversity and overcoming obstacles is a meaningful accomplishment. Resilience is a form of growth."

Adam Grant
"I knew I was on the right path when I started feeling peace in situations where I would normally feel tension."

Yung Pueblo
"Manage your reactions, but do not suppress your emotions."

Yung Pueblo
"To walk through the door of unlimited possibility, we have to leave behind the story we tell about our past."

Dr. Joe Dispenza
“If we can influence the genetics in another species, can we - with the same formula - be genetic healers in our own species? The early indications are: yes, we can.”

Dr. Joe Dispenza
“When we talk about you being the scientist, and your life being the experiment, self-examination must be part of that process of self-discovery.”

Dr. Joe Dispenza
"When experiential understanding arises, release all words and concepts. Rest mind within that experience, like resting mind on the breath in shamatha.”

Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön
“Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.”

Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön
“We need to become newly aware of the love that has infused our lives all along, to turn our attention to it afresh with the eyes of a child.”

Lama John Makransky
“Giving in to distraction, we give up caring about the activity we are doing. When we do that we also give up caring about our self, about the value of the effort we are making with our life.”

Les Kaye
“Practice saying something kind to someone every day. Do this especially with people you don’t like. It gets easier with practice and bears surprisingly good results.”

Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron
"When we feel so whole, we no longer care whether 'it' will happen, amazing things materialize before our eyes."

Dr. Joe Dispenza
"The first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention."

Daniel Goleman
"Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live."

Eckhart Tolle
"Understanding comes from patiently reasoning with yourself. You cannot force your mind or order it about."

Gehlek Rinpoche
"We feel overwhelmed. The situation seems bigger than us. But meditation restores us to that calm, without which we cannot face the truth of our condition and think clearly about how we can get out of our predicament."

Ben Okri
"We can reframe joy for ourselves by thinking of it as something that we can offer as a gift to the world rather than something that we take or have to wait to receive."

Christina Feldman and Jaya Rudgard
“‘That’s just the way I am’ is a missed opportunity for growth. Personality is not your destiny. It’s your tendency. No one is limited to a single way of thinking, feeling, or acting. Who you become is not about the traits you have. It’s what you decide to do with them.”

Adam Grant
“The mistake so many of us make is, we look for evidence outside ourselves. We slip into an unconscious, habitual, conditioned way of being. We forget: if we want to draw an experience to us, we can’t look for it. We have to become it.”

Dr. Joe Dispenza
"The biggest steps forward happen when you focus on the small daily wins and allow the rest to unfold organically."

Yung Pueblo
“Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.”

Tara Brach
"What is freedom? It's awareness that's not trapped in attraction or aversion."

Ram Dass
"Too many people wait until they're exhausted or depressed to make change or seek help. Mental health isn't something to put on the back burner. We can't keep good habits in storage until we need them. Mental hygiene should be as ingrained in our daily routine as dental hygiene."

Adam Grant
"We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased."

Pema Chödrön
“Give support, but don’t forget to help yourself too. Embrace growth, but don’t expect perfection.”

Yung Pueblo
“Beating yourself up doesn’t make you stronger. It leaves you bruised. Being kind to yourself isn’t about ignoring your weaknesses. It’s about giving yourself permission to learn from your mistakes. We grow by embracing shortcomings, not punishing them.”

Adam Grant
“Falling in love will not fix your life, healing your emotional history will.”

Yung Pueblo
“Your worth is not defined by what you achieve or acquire. It’s a question of who you become and how you contribute to others. Self-esteem should come from character, not success or status. The highest accomplishment is to be a person of generosity, curiosity, and integrity.”

Adam Grant
“Loyalty should never come at the expense of integrity. Anyone who asks you to violate your values doesn’t deserve your allegiance. Respecting your boundaries is a foundation of trust. The people worthy of commitment expect you to stand by your principles, not conform to theirs.”

Adam Grant
“We carry too much guilt about letting others down - and too little fear of letting ourselves down. We don’t fully control whether we live up to others expectations. We do decide whether we meet our own.The most important commitments to uphold are the ones you make to yourself.”

Adam Grant
“Don't burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.”

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
"Your immediate reaction does not tell you who you are. It is how you decide to respond after the reaction that gives you real insight into how much you have grown. Your first reaction is your past. Your intentional response is your present."

Yung Pueblo
"May you respond to yourself with kindness, in good times and in hard times."

Sharon Salzberg
“Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the Now.”

Eckhart Tolle
“Experience is the greatest teacher. It’s how we embody what we’ve learned.”

Dr. Joe Dispenza
“Happiness is not a place you arrive at but rather the result of training your mind to ride with ease and flexibility the roller coaster of life.”

James Baraz
“Each time we are aware of fear, we have a choice: we can acknowledge our problem and work with it, or we can run away from it and seek refuge elsewhere.”

Lama Tsony
“Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.”

Eckhart Tolle
“We do not know how long we will live, but this not knowing calls us to live every day, every week, every year of our lives to its fullest potential.”

Henri Nouwen
“Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success.”

Matthieu Ricard
“There’s a big difference between having a thought and taking action.”

Sharon Salzberg
“Every person is a world to explore.”

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Maturity is knowing that when your mood is down you should not trust the way you see yourself.”

Yung Pueblo
“We take care of the future by taking care of the present now.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Letting go is a reflective practice, one that we sit with, that we explore, that we play with. We don’t just let go of everything at one time.”

Leslie Booker
“Every day doesn’t have to be a big win for you to end up in a thriving and beautiful place. Transformation isn’t a smooth process. Cloudy days are bound to happen. Setbacks are natural. But in the end, small steps will get you to where you want to go.”

Yung Pueblo
“When someone doesn’t know how to process their own tension, they project it onto whoever is closest to them.”

Yung Pueblo
“Mindfulness is moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Now is already the future and it is already here.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The way to wisdom is opening the heart.”

James Baraz
"Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there’, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future."

Eckhart Tolle
"The heart is like a garden — it can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. Which seeds will you choose to plant?"

Jack Kornfield
"No one expects to walk into the gym and lift the heaviest weights without training. It's obvious to us that we become stronger by facing challenges that are matched to our current abilities. The same is true of everything in our lives: we grow incrementally, and by accepting where we currently are."

Forrest Hanson
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